[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 222 (Monday, November 19, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65020-65021]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-22598]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0484; FRL-8497-3]


Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Environmental 
Research (NCER) Standing Subcommittee Meeting--2007

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-
463, the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and 
Development (ORD), gives notice of a meeting of the Board of Scientific 
Counselors (BOSC) National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) 
Standing Subcommittee.

DATES: The meeting (a teleconference call) will be held on Friday, 
December 14, 2007 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. All times noted are eastern 
time. The meeting may adjourn early if all business is finished. 
Requests for the draft agenda or for making oral presentations at the 
conference call will be accepted up to 1 business day before the 
meeting.

ADDRESSES: Participation in the meeting will be by teleconference 
only--meeting rooms will not be used. Members of the public may obtain 
the call-in number and access code for the call from Susan Peterson, 
whose contact information is listed under the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT section of this notice. Submit your comments, identified by 
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0484, by one of the following methods:
     http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line 
instructions for submitting comments.
     E-mail: Send comments by electronic mail (e-mail) to: 
[email protected], Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0484.
     Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0484.
     Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific 
Counselors, National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) Standing 
Subcommittee--2007 Docket, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 
NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-
0484.
     Hand Delivery or Courier. Deliver comments to: EPA Docket 
Center (EPA/DC), Room B102, EPA West Building, 1301 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC., Attention: Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-
0484. Note: this is not a mailing address. Such deliveries are only 
accepted during the docket's normal hours of operation, and special 
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2007-0484. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included 
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at 
http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information 
provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be 
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose 
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you 
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The http://www.regulations.gov Web site 
is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your 
identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of 
your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without 
going through http://www.regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be 
automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is 
placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you 
submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name 
and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any 
disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to 
technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA 
may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid 
the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of 
any defects or viruses. For additional information about EPA's public 
docket visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index. Although

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listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, e.g., 
CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 
Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, will be publicly 
available only in hard copy. Publicly available docket materials are 
available either electronically in http://www.regulations.gov or in 
hard copy at the Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for 
Environmental Research (NCER) Standing Subcommittee--2007 Docket, EPA/
DC, EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. 
The Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the 
Public Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the 
ORD Docket is (202) 566-1752.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Designated Federal Officer via 
mail at: Susan Peterson, Mail Code 8104-R, Office of Science Policy, 
Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency, 
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; via phone/voice 
mail at: (202) 564-1077; via fax at: (202) 565-2911; or via e-mail at: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

General Information

    Participation in the meeting will be by teleconference only--
meeting rooms will not be used. Members of the public who wish to 
obtain the call-in number and access code to participate in the 
conference call may contact Susan Peterson, the Designated Federal 
Officer, via any of the contact methods listed in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section above, by 4 working days prior to the 
conference call.
    The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the subcommittee's draft 
letter report. Proposed agenda items for the conference call include, 
but are not limited to: Discussion of NCER responses to action items 
that resulted from the November 1, 2007 teleconference, and 
subcommittee responses to the charge questions. The conference call is 
open to the public.
    Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: For 
information on access or services for individuals with disabilities, 
please contact Susan Peterson at (202) 564-1077 or 
[email protected]. To request accommodation of a disability, 
please contact Susan Peterson, preferably at least 10 days prior to the 
meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your request.

    Dated: November 8, 2007.
Jeff Morris,
Acting Director, Office of Science Policy.
[FR Doc. E7-22598 Filed 11-16-07; 8:45 am]
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